Reading Ggik-sa-youjo-ki, an original book of Japanese tea, would promote to understand Japanese tea culture. As stated in the name, this book describes health preservation through drinking tea. The author started to pay attention to why Eisai has emphasized on drinking tea and subsequently strived to comprehend the exact definition of having tea through Ggik-sa-youjo-ki. The book is composed of first and second volume which respectively states a way of preserving health and applying mulberry to health preservation. Most existing research has primarily examined tea rather than mulberry even though mulberry could be equivalent to tea. Despite mulberry described in almost thirty percentage of the entire book in order to present the importance of having tea, it was relatively overlooked in research area. The purpose of this research is to examine how Eisai presented mulberry in parallel with tea, the precise meaning of having tea regarding both mulberry and tea, and what perspectives Eisai had in his mind when describing both of them.
In the second chapter, it identifies Eisai, an author of Ggik-sa -youjo -ki, and the specific era and backgrounds when Eisai wrote and expanded the book. Additionally, it focuses on how Eisai had chances of encountering Chinese tea during his trip to Cheontae Mountain. The third chapter investigates the effects of having tea which could be a means of preserving health and how it positively affects individuals’ body and heart. Also, it referred to a variety of Chinese research paper to illustrate related aspects between Ggik-sa-youjo-ki and diverse research. The fourth chapter clarifies how mulberry can promote health preservation and a way of having mulberry by referring to researches which introduce and examine mulberry. In the fifth chapter, it examines references which Eisai used to write Ggik-sa-youjo-ki with the ideology of Taoism and compares Taoism reflected in different references and Ggik-sa-youjo-ki. The final chapter describes how Eisai was affected by Taoism in the process of writing Ggik-sa-youjo-ki by summarizing all of the five chapters. Overall, this paper aims to design and develop informative research which could help to fully interpret the initial book of Japanese tea, foundation of Japanese tea cultureAuthor(s)정유경Issued Date2020Awarded Date2020. 8TypeDissertationPublisher부경대학교URIhttps://repository.pknu.ac.kr:8443/handle/2021.oak/2581 http://pknu.dcollection.net/common/orgView/200000339214 Show Full Item Record
흔히 의학의 목적은 질병의 치료라는 말로 단순하게 정의된다. 그러나 이러한 인식이 고대 중국에서 발생한 한의학에도 그대로 적용될 수 있을까? 이 논문은 이런 단순한 의문에서 출발한다. 독일의 폴 운슐트와 일본의 야마다 케이지는 이러한 상식적 이해를 전제하고 고대 한의학의 역사에 접근한다. 따라서 그러한 연구에서는 『황제내경』의 출현에 모든 초점이 모아질 뿐이다.
나는 이러한 시각에만 한정될 때 한의학 자체가 발원하게 된 사상적 배경, 의학의 이념을 놓치게 된다고 본다. 고대 중국의 한의학은 이미 기원전 4세기 말 경부터 『여씨춘추』와 같은 일부 문헌에서 발견한 ``몸``의 주제화와 황로학 운동에 큰 빚을 지고 있다.
『황제내경』의 고대 철학과의 관계는 이러한 지점에서 조망되어야 한다. 대개의 경우처럼 유가나 도가와 같은 학파별 분류를 전제하고 이로부터 한의학과의 연관성을 찾는 담론은 나이브한 것이다. 이러한 미성숙한 학문적 시야는 불합리하고 비과학적인 ``도교의학``과 같은 용어를 무반성적으로 재생산할 뿐이다.
Kuriyama was born in Marugame, Japan.[4] After his family moved for a time to the US, he studied at Phillips Exeter Academy.[4] Subsequently, he attended Harvard for all three of his degrees. He earned an A.B. degree from its Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1977 and an A.M. degree in 1978. Afterwards, he received three years of training in acupuncture in Tokyo.[2][5] He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard's Department of the History of Science in 1986.
Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History On leave 2022-23
Shigehisa Kuriyama received his A.B. degree from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1977 and an A.M. degree in 1978. After completing acupuncture studies in Tokyo, he entered Harvard's Department of the History of Science, which awarded him a Ph.D. in 1986. He joined the Harvard faculty as Reischauer Professor in 2005 after previously working at the University of New Hampshire, Emory University, and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan.
Kuriyama's research explores broad philosophical issues (being and time, representations and reality, knowing and feeling) through the lens of specific topics in comparative medical history (Japan, China, and Europe).
His book, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (Zone, 1999), received the 2001 William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine, and has been translated into Chinese, Greek, Spanish, and Korean.
His recent work includes studies on the history of distraction, the imagination of strings in the experience of presence, the transformation of money into a palpable humor in Edo Japan, the nature of hiddenness in traditional Chinese medicine, and the web of connections binding ginseng, opium, tea, silver, and MSG. Kuriyama has also been actively engaged in expanding the horizons of teaching and scholarly communication through the creative use of digital technologies both at Harvard and at other universities in the US and abroad.
The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (Zone Books) Paperback – March 15, 2002 by Shigehisa Kuriyama (Author) 4.4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds.
How can perceptions of something as basic and intimate as the body differ so?
In this book, Shigehisa Kuriyama explores this fundamental question, elucidating the fascinating contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body as envisaged by physicians in ancient China.
Revealing how perceptions of the body and conceptions of personhood are intimately linked, his comparative inquiry invites us, indeed compels us, to reassess our own habits of feeling and perceiving.
The Expressiveness of the Body was awarded the 2001 Welch Medal by the American Association for the History of Medicine.
Print length 344 pages March 15, 2002
Editorial Reviews
Review ."..this is an astonishingly original reading of early medicine in China and the West, yet one that builds its case with scrupulous scholarship. . . . A great achievement!"--Arthur Kleinman, Harvard Medical School
“Kuriyama frames the contrast between medicine in China and in the West with a brilliant and marvelously detailed analysis of ancient Greek and Chinese medicine. All told, this is an astonishingly original reading of early medicine.”― Arthur Kleinman, Harvard Medical School and Harvard University
“Kuriyama offers the reader not just a history of ancient beliefs about the body, but an inspiring account of different ways of inhabiting the world.”― Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge
“A masterpiece of historical scholarship. Beautifully written, the book challenges our conventional ways of seeing and discerning reality.”― Günter B. Risse, University of California, San Francisco Read more
Product details Publisher : Zone Books; Revised ed. edition (March 15, 2002) Language : English Paperback : 344 pages 4.4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings Shigehisa Kuriyama
Customer reviews 4.4 out of 5 stars Top reviews from other countries Fergus Byrne 5.0 out of 5 stars The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
It is a great book. Everybody should read it. The chapter on muscularity and identity should be read by anybody who pursues figurative studies of the body.
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The book is really interesting but turned out to be rather technical Report abuse Swox 5.0 out of 5 stars Quintessential reading for anyone interested in the body or the history of medicine.Reviewed in Canada on March 12, 2018 Verified Purchase
Maybe my favourite academic book of all time.
Achieves the rare feat of being both brilliant and easy to read. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the body and/or the history of medicine, whether they're academics or non-academics.
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The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine
If I could give this 4.5 stars I would. Exhibit 1 in the case that I really should read Birth of the Clinic already. Fascinating and unusual book this is. That expert on TCM whose name begins with a U (slips my mind) (4/12: Paul Unschuld) says Kuriyama plays a bit fast and loose with the Chinese side of things, but even if he is overstating the separation of the two traditions, the book is still a remarkably cool thought experiment. And a real pleasure to read, real poetry in places.
For me the most interesting issues raised are twofold--
first the difference in the way the Greeks and the Chinese reconciled disagreements between anatomy and sensation.
In the former case, the interior structure of the (dead) body is taken as the ultimate reality
in the later, the sensations and connections of the surface of the living body trump internal structure.
This difference derives in part from the differing status of dissection and anatomy in both traditions.
Kuriyama makes a compelling case for putting the anatomizing gaze at the root of western knowledges about the body. Some truly fascinating discussions of the similarities between early dissectors and that set of priests who measured the future by way of animal entrails. Anybody, med anth types, etc., able to recommend a good history of science or med anth take on the history of dissection and anatomy in the west? (4/12: the Body Emblazoned by Sawday is now on the to read list)
Revisited 4/12 -- this is a five star book. One that stays with you.(less)
This is an interesting read that those in the medical field could benefit from. It discusses how ancient Chinese medicine differed from that of Greek and Western medicine, which provides important insights to how culture and approaches to medicine and health are different.
As someone who studies communication, this book was also interesting.
“My thesis is that the history of conceptions of the body must be understood in conjunction with a history of conceptions of communication” (Kuriyama, 2002, p. 107).
Communication theories and concepts are echoed throughout the book though they are never explicitly spelled out. It almost felt like a book of examples of communication concepts through the perspective of medicine and different cultures. However, at some points the book seems repetitive with how many examples there are. For me, I felt like saying, "okay, I got the point. Move on."
However, I know for non-communication studies people, the concepts being introduced were unusual in that they had never considered some of these concepts (like orientalism, fundamental attribution error, fields of experience, etc.) so the extra time and effort spent discussing it in the book was more worthwhile for these individuals.(less)
Read for History 103F, Fall 2021. - The conclusion that Kuriyama draws in The Expressiveness of the Body is that task of discovering the truth of the body is inseparable from the challenge of discovering the truth about people, and as such, different peoples experience their bodies distinctly because we conceive our senses -- in particular, those of touch, sight, and hearing -- differently to understand what is fundamentally the same reality. Communication philology and medical epistemology is really at the heart of Kuriyama's book, which is a refreshing departure from many academic papers on similar topics due to the digestibility and ease at which his almost-poetic prose breaks down the key bifurcations in the development of medicine in ancient Greece and China. (less)
One of the best books I’ve read this year. I would recommend it to academic or popular audiences interested in medical epistemologies. The scholarship is close and compelling, the arguments drawn carefully but with such infectious enthusiasm. I found my heart leaping as one idea forks into the next. I’ve heard some say this isn’t properly a work of “history of science.” Maybe it’s more accurately a work of evidentiary phenomenology, but I would still call it a masterwork of conceptual history.
This is one of the best books on Chinese Medicine. It compares the development of the "felt body" in Ancient Greece and in Chinese Cosmology and then shows how we got where we are today by looking at both art and medicine through history. Very highly recommended for students of the martial arts.(less)
This book for me was remarkable, as it is always interesting to read the alternate reality of your own. (social imaginary) The body, of course, concerns our deepest understandings, and the ways in which these manifested later in Eastern and Western philosophy are fascinating; a simple example of which being
the synergistic dominance of objective thought in the western sphere vis-a-vis anatomy vs.
the more subjective but still constructed reality of the Eastern body.
One is more about particles, one is more about waves. They both had results. We now have to understand the two as one. The whole thing was fascinating to me. One of those books you pick up off a random shelf and open to a random spot just to test its worth. An answer is revealed, so you go on. Lots of pencil lines. Maybe I'll write a longer review later but I'd say if you're looking for the answer of how the world came to be as it is today, (as we understand it) this is a piece of the puzzle. (less)
Very interesting approach to comparing, but mostly contrasting eastern and western medicine. Looks at what it means to examine the body in both cultures. What it means to be in the body. Why are greek visual representations of man so muscle bound and chinese ones so paunchy and chilled out?Very good if you are interested in the history of medicine, eastern medicine. The text is academic, full of citations, but it is not hard to read.
This book is an analysis of ancient Greek vs Chinese medicine in terms of their different perceptions of--and ways of perceiving--the body. Kuriyama's extensive discussion about pulse-taking in each of these traditions was fascinating, and I think I will always have it in mind when a clinician reaches for my wrist....more
Why the expressiveness of the body was so different between the East and the West? The brain was nothing but just a gray chunk of meat to the Oriental medicine. People didn't pay much attention to muscles that were not depicted in medical pictures in the East. Almost no anatomy. However, the oriental medicine is really effective. Why? The answer can be found in your body? Maybe....(less)
Very cool concept of comparing the view of the body from the different systems, but it's one of those hard-to-digest books with language of a beef-jerky style. It's probably one I won't ever fully read.(less)
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